Art of the Sentence: Jenny Offill
“Once, as I lay in bed, a bright red sun appeared in the window. It bounced from side to side, then became a ball. Life...
Madwomen in Northanger Abbey and Frankenstein
Gilbert and Gubar’s feminist examination of female-authored literature, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (1979), draws its title...
Sublime v. Human Gothic Villains
The trope of the Gothic villain ranges from the most explicit—arguably Ann Radcliffe’s Schedoni, the ultimate personification of the Gothic sublime that she articulates in...
Bjork’s Autofiction and the Mutating Self
How can a “visual manifesto of the self”—a separation of the self (Bjork) from the other (us, her readers) connect the self and the other...
The Potential of the Female Gaze
Art “is a delimitation of spaces and times, of the visible and the invisible, of speech and noise, that simultaneously determines the place and the...